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WaikatoUniversity (like most others I presume) uses course numbers to identify courses. Look here for WaikatoCourseDescriptions |
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There are two ways for a course to be identified: |
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The old way |
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SSDD.YXXA |
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SS identifies a school |
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DD identifies a department |
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Y identifies a year |
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XX identifies a course |
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A identifies a semester |
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So : 0657.201Y |
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06 = School of Computing and Mathmatical Sciences |
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57 = Department of Computer Science |
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2 = Second year paper |
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Y = Full year paper. |
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Papers are most often refered to by their final 3 digit code, eg, 201, 312, 103 etc etc. |
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The problem with this is that it assumes you know what school and department the paper is under. Normally WLUG members will be refering to Computer Science ! |
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Semesters can be A - First Semester, B - Second Semester, Y - Full year, S - Summer School (there are other semester codes, but they are not commonly used). |
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The new way (starting from 2003) has been simplified (must have confused the management students !) |
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The School and Department have been scrapped, and replaced with a 4 letter code |
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eg 0657.201Y now changes to COMP201Y |
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While the course codes are somewhat simpler, the University now often refers to a paper using both a course (paper) code and an occurance code (which indicates year, semester and location) - Computer Science 123 for example, is taught as COMP123-05A(HAM), COMP123-05B(HAM) or COMP123-05S(HAM) in 2005. |
